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much as other growers in more fortunate circum- 

 stances. 



Messrs W. Atlee Burpee & Co., Messrs C. C. Morse 

 & Co., San Francisco, and Mr J. C. Vaughan, are 

 largely responsible for promoting the cultivation of the 

 Sweet Peas in America. For the three following varieties, 

 America, Navy Blue, and Helen Pierce, we have reason 

 to be grateful. American efforts with the Spencer type 

 will, doubtless, in due time, be seen on this side of the 

 Atlantic. Much is thought of Burpee's White Spencer 

 in some quarters, but we must wait before we express 

 our opinion on this and others of the same type. 



